RACF Contracts in England

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring RACF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RACF over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 528 598
Rank change year-on-year +45 +70 +178
Contract jobs citing RACF 12 31 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.083% 0.080%
As % of the System Software category 0.37% 0.73% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 26 11
10th Percentile £465 £460 £500
25th Percentile £478 £490 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £631 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +5.21% +16.50%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £700
90th Percentile - £750 £750
UK median daily rate £585 £631 £600
% change year-on-year -7.33% +5.21% +16.50%

All System Software Skills
England

RACF falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,254 4,225 6,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.35% 11.31% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,145 2,926 4,356
10th Percentile £220 £210 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 197 217
10th Percentile £15.04 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £22.30 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -55.40% +150.00%
75th Percentile £67.63 £58.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.38 £70.00 £75.70
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £54.00
% change year-on-year +16.72% -55.57% +170.00%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RACF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RACF in England

RACF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RACF in England.

Daily rate trend for RACF in England

RACF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RACF in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RACF in England

RACF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RACF in England.

Hourly rate trend for RACF in England

RACF
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the England region over the 6 months to 4 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +43 7 £600 - 5
London +16 4 £494 -27.66% 27
North of England +5 1 - - 14
Yorkshire +1 1 - - 7
RACF
UK

RACF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) DB2
General
1 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Administrator
1 7 (58.33%) Security Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Programmer
2 4 (33.33%) Systems Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) CICS Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) CICS Systems Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) Mainframe Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Mainframe Support
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Support
4 1 (8.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) zOS
2 1 (8.33%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Security Auditing
3 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
3 5 (41.67%) Security Management
4 4 (33.33%) High Availability
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) Data Sharing
6 2 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (16.67%) Runbook
7 1 (8.33%) Batch Processing
7 1 (8.33%) Change Control
7 1 (8.33%) Compliance Audit
7 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
7 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
7 1 (8.33%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Assembly Language
1 2 (16.67%) COBOL
1 2 (16.67%) JCL
1 2 (16.67%) REXX
2 1 (8.33%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CISSP
1 6 (50.00%) IBM Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) ACF2
1 1 (8.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (8.33%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) IBM